Word: lewises
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THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK (504 pp.)-Edited by Bernard DeVoto -Houghton Mifflin ($6.50).
These relics were not meant as a vulgar insult to President Jefferson. They were zoological samplings from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,* of the U.S. Army, out to explore Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Every U.S. schoolboy has heard of them, but the seven volumes of their journals have long...
Common Dangers. Lewis and Clark left St. Louis in May 1804. Long before their return in September 1806, they were presumed to be dead, and it was a fair presumption. Many of the Indians were friendly, but there were plenty who were not. The travelers were repeatedly attacked by grizzlies...
Mostly they lived by their rifles, and in buffalo country the living was easy. But there were times when roots, dried berries and their horses and dogs stood between them and starvation. Wrote Lewis on Jan. 5, 1806: "I have learned to think that if the chord be sufficiently strong...
Wild Melody. Lewis was a captain in the Regular Army, Clark a second lieutenant, but both were called "Captain" and shared the leadership. Their men, except for guides, were Army enlisted men, and never did men endure so much for so little: $8 a month for sergeants, $5 for privates...